AddressPurpose of role:
It couldn’t be a better time to join a truly purpose-led brand, as Blackmores accelerates behind new key growth pillars and an exciting strategy to unlock future opportunities. We are excited to introduce the role of Category Development Manager.
The purpose of this role is to drive sustainable category growth by delivering insights and initiatives that connect with consumers, shoppers, and customers. This role will grow and manage our VMS category across Grocery channels which is critical to the ongoing success of our business.
This role will champion category growth - understanding the consumer and category opportunities, and then ensuring we have the right tactics (covering the right range / right layout / right merchandising principles) to execute in our key channels.
Success will require a persuasive blend of highly insightful analytical skills and first-class collaboration - collaboration across channels, across teams and - ultimately - collaboration externally with key customers.
We can offer:
- A role that will champion category growth (mainly in the Grocery channel / category).
- Great benefits that support your health and wellbeing, including discounted products and onsite facilities
- Culture of flexibility and professional development
What will you do?
- Driving strategic category management leadership by understanding market dynamics, developing clearly defined category growth drivers and ensuring that our annual plans support this category growth agenda.
- Ensure relevant Channel strategy clearly articulates the strategic priorities for the channel, and driving the strategy-into-action process to ensure the wider commercial team delivers (embedding customer and shopper needs into our ICP process)
- Collaborate with sales and marketing to use in-market data to determine the right assortment per channel / customer - aligning with consumer and customer needs, but also reflecting where we can drive mutual profitable growth (including identifying key portfolio gaps).
- Work with the BEXP to devise and deliver market leading activity with key customers, and aligning them to our category growth agenda
- Maximize the impact of our promotional impact in channel, via promotional guidelines and activity evaluation (course correcting as needed)
- This role will be also managing 1 Category Development Executive and play a strong business partnering role to the Grocery Channel, Planning, Commercial and other related teams within Blackmores
Who are you?
- An individual with extensive category management and development experience within FMCG / CPG industry, either as a senior specialist or people leader
- Able to demonstrate clear understanding of trends, levers and factors affecting category growth
- Thrives in a dynamic and fast paced environment that
- Ability to manage and be involved with multiple ongoing projects that impacts the category and overall business
- A strong communicator who possess analytical skills and business acumen
Blackmores Group has an extensive presence across Asia Pacific. Founded by visionary naturopath Maurice Blackmore in 1932, our vision is to connect every person on earth to the healing power of nature by combining our knowledge of nature and science to deliver quality health solutions to people and their pets everywhere, every day. Recognising that you can’t have healthy people without a healthy planet, we’re strongly committed to embedding sustainability across our business and giving back to the communities in which we operate.
As a purpose-led, performance-driven organisation, Blackmores Group strives to create remarkable employee experiences through supporting a diverse and inclusive culture, creating leadership that inspires high performance, and providing everyone with opportunities to achieve their professional, personal and wellbeing goals supported by our flexible work practices and family friendly policies. Your genuine commitment to the Blackmores values of Passion for Natural Health, Integrity, Respect, Leadership and Social Responsibility is essential.
Blackmores Group operates in 12 markets, with global headquarters in Sydney, an international HQ in Singapore, an Innovation Centre in Shanghai and a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Braeside, Victoria.
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